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From nation to diaspora : Samuel Selvon, George Lamming and the cultural performance of gender / Curdella Forbes.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Kingston, Jamaica : University of the West Indies Press, c2005.Description: x, 305 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9789766401719 (pbk.) :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 810.997 29
Contents:
The necessity of gender: Selvon, Lamming and the re-imagination of culture -- Representations of gender in the nationalist period: images, foundations and performances -- Representing exile: the flight from gender in Selvon's Lonely Londoners, Moses Ascending and the Housing Lark -- Going home: performing masculinity in A Brighter Sun and Turn Again Tiger -- The construction of gender as anti-colonial discourse: Lamming's Of Age and Innoncence and Season of Adventure -- Theorizing the feminine and the body in Natives of my Person and The Emigrants -- All this, diasporic and the postmodern.
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Books Books Roseau Public Library West Indian Collection Reference W.I. 810.997 29 For (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not For Loan 18110
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

The necessity of gender: Selvon, Lamming and the re-imagination of culture -- Representations of gender in the nationalist period: images, foundations and performances -- Representing exile: the flight from gender in Selvon's Lonely Londoners, Moses Ascending and the Housing Lark -- Going home: performing masculinity in A Brighter Sun and Turn Again Tiger -- The construction of gender as anti-colonial discourse: Lamming's Of Age and Innoncence and Season of Adventure -- Theorizing the feminine and the body in Natives of my Person and The Emigrants -- All this, diasporic and the postmodern.

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